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[LavitzSlambert]

Nvidia is going full post-Sandy Bridge Intel. Except rather than performance stagnation, it's price and power consumption increases that effectively results in performance stagnation on the low-mid end. A high end GPU like the 5080 should be pushing 24GB to be relevant for a potential PS5 Pro refresh and PS6. I guess you could say we don't need more than 16GB at the moment, but anyone buying one of these cards is going to be upset when its life cycle is short lived. If I were to buy a $1k GPU, I'd want it to be a top performer for the rest of this console generation and strong enough to get me through next-gen without sacrifices.

 

[daninthemix]

I wonder what "DLSS 4" will be; something completely novel or just refinements of AA/SS, Frame-Gen & Ray Reconstruction?

It will yet again be something that sends all competitor companies scrabbling for a (half-baked) equivalent.

 

[Mithos]

Prices aren't coming back down.

Maybe not, but the card that fit in my budget might actually be good enough to be considered an upgrade instead of a sidegrade.

 

[Ozriel]

Why do you say that? The 40 series GPUs are extremely efficient, my 4080 consumes like 220w-250w playing things like Cyberpunk maxed out and getting 90fps-ish.

Yep. Some people shit on the 4080 so much because of the launch price, but the performance per watt for that card is astounding.

 

[cinnamonandgravy]

If I were to buy a $1k GPU, I'd want it to be a top performer for the rest of this console generation and strong enough to get me through next-gen without sacrifices.

no card has ever beefed through 2 console generations unscathed.

plus RT is only going to be used more and more, and even the 5090 will fall unless there's some major processing efficiency breakthrough.

 

[playsaves3]

According to the latest behind-the-scenes information, NVIDIA's new flagship card will feature 24 GB of GDDR7 VRAM with a speed of 28 Gbps, a 384-bit bus and a bandwidth of 1536 GB/s.

The new information, released by leaker @kopite7kimi, points to the jump in speed from 21 Gbps in the RTX 4090 to 28 Gbps for the implementation of GDDR7 in NVIDIA's new top of the line, based on the Blackwell architecture. Remember that this new DRAM standard can exceed this barrier, reaching up to 64 Gbit. As for the bus, the new rumors point to 384-bits, instead of the 512-bits initially rumored.





If the rumors are true. The RTX 50 should be configured as follows:

• GB202 - 512-bit bus, 24 GB VRAM, 1536 GB/s bandwidth;
• GB203 - 256-bit bus, 16 GB VRAM, 1024 GB/s bandwidth;
• GB204 - 192-bit bus, 12 GB VRAM, 768 GB/s bandwidth;
• GB206 - 128-bit bus, 8 GB VRAM, 512 GB bandwidth;
• GB207 - 128-bit bus, 8 GB VRAM, 512 GB/s bandwidth.

No 32gb?

 

[Fredrik]

I love this man

Invested in Nvda, cant wait for 5090. I skipped 4090 because of the 12vhpw nonsense.

Wasn’t the melting cable just FUD?
I checked my cable and connector with a temp camera, saw nothing worth being concerned about and stopped thinking about it.
Plugged in a new one in a 4080S recently and just made sure to push it in until it clicked.

 

[Solidus_T]

Only 12GB frame buffer and a 192-bit bus on the "mid range" card is insane. It'll probably be like 899 MRSP too. I hate this

 

[LavitzSlambert]

By the way, we all know why this is happening. Nvidia has a new core market now in making their AI chips that demand significant memory. That, and memory prices have jumped and will continue to increase later this year, into next. Rather than eat into Nvidia's egregious profit margins, they will refuse to increase capacity. Then in a couple years when it threatens their growth/market share (because AMD or Intel undercut them) they'll bump the spec and tout huge performance gains.

 

[Krappadizzle]

Miss the days' the 512 Bus was just a given on the x80 cards. These cards have represented less and less value as we've gone further away from the 10xx series.

 

[rofif]

nah. Not falling for nvidia bs. nah

 

[CuteFaceJay]

The new standard, The only thing I've done with my GPU that has legitimately utilized all that memory was when I ran AI models with Stable diffusion or when I mined crypto.

It's gonna get to the point where GPU becomes seen as more than just a 'gaming thing' by the masses. We just aren't at that stage yet so people will continue to think the price being put on something like this be out of the norm.

 

[DAHGAMING]

Series X more powerfull .

 

[DragonNCM]

According to the latest behind-the-scenes information, NVIDIA's new flagship card will feature 24 GB of GDDR7 VRAM with a speed of 28 Gbps, a 384-bit bus and a bandwidth of 1536 GB/s.

The new information, released by leaker @kopite7kimi, points to the jump in speed from 21 Gbps in the RTX 4090 to 28 Gbps for the implementation of GDDR7 in NVIDIA's new top of the line, based on the Blackwell architecture. Remember that this new DRAM standard can exceed this barrier, reaching up to 64 Gbit. As for the bus, the new rumors point to 384-bits, instead of the 512-bits initially rumored.





If the rumors are true. The RTX 50 should be configured as follows:

• GB202 - 512-bit bus, 24 GB VRAM, 1536 GB/s bandwidth;
• GB203 - 256-bit bus, 16 GB VRAM, 1024 GB/s bandwidth;
• GB204 - 192-bit bus, 12 GB VRAM, 768 GB/s bandwidth;
• GB206 - 128-bit bus, 8 GB VRAM, 512 GB bandwidth;
• GB207 - 128-bit bus, 8 GB VRAM, 512 GB/s bandwidth.

There is no game at least next 10 years who will need close to this spec to be played on this GPU, totally waste of money.

 

[willothedog]

I expect the 5090s to fly off the shelves as will have insane compute power other than going to enterprise cards.

 

[Bojji]

There is no game at least next 10 years who will need close to this spec to be played on this GPU, totally waste of money.

4090 can't run some ue5 games in 4k 60fps, this GPU will probably be able to do that.

 

[Magic Carpet]

There is no game at least next 10 years who will need close to this spec to be played on this GPU, totally waste of money.

I bought the remake of Brothers a tale of two sons. Forget 10 years from now, a remake from a game 10 years OLD is making current hardware struggle.

 

[samoilaaa]

There is no game at least next 10 years who will need close to this spec to be played on this GPU, totally waste of money.

The witcher 4 with ultra settings / path tracing will require a 5090 for high fps most likely

 

[Gaiff]

There is no game at least next 10 years who will need close to this spec to be played on this GPU, totally waste of money.

10 years ago was the start of the PS4 era. Would you try running today's game on a GTX 780 or even a Titan?

 

[Lux R7]

yeah well i'll stick with my 3090 for now

 

[Dorfdad]

dimensing returns for the most part and probably not worth the initial cost this thing is going to cost.

 

[Rocco Schiavone]

 

[Senua]

Yet if Sony announced a $1000 Pro.

 

[Bonfires Down]

Holy shit, they’re seriously gonna push 8 GB cards again?

 

[Hudo]

• GB204 - 192-bit bus, 12 GB VRAM, 768 GB/s bandwidth;
• GB206 - 128-bit bus, 8 GB VRAM, 512 GB bandwidth;
• GB207 - 128-bit bus, 8 GB VRAM, 512 GB/s bandwidth.

Lmao. Offering 8GB VRAM cards post 2022 was already an insult.

Holy fucking hell. Consumers should tell Nvidia to fuck off.

Also, If the 5090 doesn't have 32GB of VRAM, then what is the fucking point of that card even existing?

If these rumors are indeed true then the 5000 series looks like absolute dogshit.

 

[MatrixReloaded101]

i think ill sit this one out. 4090 is more than enough for the games coming out these days.

This

Plus there isn't enough companies that are taking advantage of the new tech don't see the point in upgrading from my 4090 until at least GTA 6 is released on PC.

 

[GHG]

What would be the 1%?

Cyberpunk with path tracing cranked at 4k with DLSS quality. You need a 4090 for that.

 

[Braag]

5080 should absolutely have 24Gb Vram.

The witcher 4 with ultra settings / path tracing will require a 5090 for high fps most likely

By the time next Witcher game comes out, we will have 7000 series cards.

 

[playsaves3]

Nvidia is going full post-Sandy Bridge Intel. Except rather than performance stagnation, it's price and power consumption increases that effectively results in performance stagnation on the low-mid end. A high end GPU like the 5080 should be pushing 24GB to be relevant for a potential PS5 Pro refresh and PS6. I guess you could say we don't need more than 16GB at the moment, but anyone buying one of these cards is going to be upset when its life cycle is short lived. If I were to buy a $1k GPU, I'd want it to be a top performer for the rest of this console generation and strong enough to get me through next-gen without sacrifices.

Well you will be disappointed if the ps6 is in at least the same tier as the ps5 was at release then with 7090 releasing at the same time as the ps6 it means rhe ps6 should perform just about a 6080 in rasterization

 

[DragonNCM]

5080 should absolutely have 24Gb Vram.


By the time next Witcher game comes out, we will have 7000 series cards.

exactly my point

 

[Klik]

RTX 5080 would be great for VR. Hoping it will be below 900$

 

[tkscz]

Lmao. Offering 8GB VRAM cards post 2022 was already an insult.

Holy fucking hell. Consumers should tell Nvidia to fuck off.

And yet, the 3060 8GB edition, 1650 4GB and 2060 6GB are the top three GPUs used on Steam right now.

If you don't care about having Ultra settings at 4K, and are fine with medium settings at 1080p, then 8GBs is more than enough for even new games.

Couldn't stand every single Youtube video that came out about 8GBs not being enough but none of them playing the games on lower than Ultra settings.

PC gaming is getting more popular and with that more people will take cheaper hardware that just runs the game, they don't care to run them at the highest settings possible and nvidia will sell GPUs to those people considering those people are starting to outnumber everyone else.

Just hope nvidia doesn't charge a ridiculous amount for it.

 

[Soodanim]

At this point the lower end looks like the spec equivalent of nVidia throwing a GPU in the mud at your feet and spitting on you when you dare to kneel down and pick it up.

They're obviously offering a shit low end to encourage the expensive end after 970 and then 1060ti did so well. And look how it has worked. People talk about 4080/4090, but how often do 4070 and 4060 get shout outs?

 

[Jigsaah]

8 gb of Ram in 2024...who is buying this?

 

[StereoVsn]

16gb on 5080 is a joke. Nvidia insist to not give vram so gpus dies fast.

I will wait with my 4080 for 6080 hope with 32gb vram

Yeah, it’s kind of ridiculous considering this is probably a 2025 release. And you know Nvidia will charge the 32GB price for the thing.

I wouldn’t be surprised to see $1200-1300 again for an 80 series card.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

Yet if Sony announced a $1000 Pro.

 

[Gaiff]

At this point the lower end looks like the spec equivalent of nVidia throwing a GPU in the mud at your feet and spitting on you when you dare to kneel down and pick it up.

They're obviously offering a shit low end to encourage the expensive end after 970 and then 1060ti did so well. And look how it has worked. People talk about 4080/4090, but how often do 4070 and 4060 get shout outs?

4070 gets attention. 4060 doesn’t when 60 cards have historically been the most popular class. NVIDIA was tired of offering value and has been making them increasingly shittier since Ampere.

 

[Senua]

And yet, the 3060 8GB edition, 1650 4GB and 2060 6GB are the top three GPUs used on Steam right now.

If you don't care about having Ultra settings at 4K, and are fine with medium settings at 1080p, then 8GBs is more than enough for even new games.

Couldn't stand every single Youtube video that came out about 8GBs not being enough but none of them playing the games on lower than Ultra settings.

PC gaming is getting more popular and with that more people will take cheaper hardware that just runs the game, they don't care to run them at the highest settings possible and nvidia will sell GPUs to those people considering those people are starting to outnumber everyone else.

Just hope nvidia doesn't charge a ridiculous amount for it.

While there is some truth to that, don't act like it's not Nvidia just being tight as a ducks arsehole to save a buck. They are reselling lower tier cards as higher tier ones because they can get away with it.

 

[Tomi]

dont care, will buy 5080 no matter what

 

[Jigsaah]

Yet if Sony announced a $1000 Pro.

No shot I buy $1000 Pro. I would sell my 4090, get a 5090 and upgrade the mobo, ram and cpu.

 

[ResilientBanana]

Looks like this lineup will be VRAM constrained in the same way the last series was/is.

yet still be leagues ahead of AMD.

 

[Senua]

yet still be leagues ahead of AMD.

Just not in vram

 

[ResilientBanana]

Just not in vram

I mean, GDDR7 is going to be fast as fuck, not to mention the RTX50 series are on PCIe 5.0. So, I'm sure whatever is lost in quantity we gain in speed. These people build GPU's for a living, they would know more than we would.

 

[Gaiff]

I mean, GDDR7 is going to be fast as fuck, not to mention the RTX50 series are on PCIe 5.0. So, I'm sure whatever is lost in quantity we gain in speed. These people build GPU's for a living, they would know more than we would.

Nah, Gaffers definitely know more.

 

[LaughingStock]

i think ill sit this one out. 4090 is more than enough for the games coming out these days.

4090 feels like overkill sometimes.

 

[Von Hugh]

They are going to price this at 3000 dollars just because they can.

 

[DaGwaphics]

I mean, GDDR7 is going to be fast as fuck, not to mention the RTX50 series are on PCIe 5.0. So, I'm sure whatever is lost in quantity we gain in speed. These people build GPU's for a living, they would know more than we would.

As a rule, the improved bandwidth doesn't lesson the need for quantity of memory. This is not the first shift to faster memory we've had.

 

[RayHell]

Nvidia clearly doesn't want to hurt their RTX 5000 Ada sales by going for 32GB. I run three RTX 4090 and there's no reason to upgrade for no extra vram.

 

[Kenpachii]

Only thing i care about is what DLSS 4 is going to offer and if 4000 series support it. If 5000 introduces another form of doubling framerate will probably upgrade again, if not i will wait for the 6000 series.

 

[CobraAB]

One thousand nine hundred and ninety nine US Dollars.